Improvement in water-wheels



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Patented Aug. 291, '1871.

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CHARLES M. MILES, OF MILFORD, DELAWARE, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND SOLOMON MATTHEWS, OF SAME PLAGE.

IMPROVEMENT IN WATER-WHEELS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 118,546, dated August 29, 1871.

To all 'whom it 'may concern: l

Be it known that I, GHARLEs M. MrLEs, of Milford, in the county of Kent and State of Delaware, have invented a new and Improved Water-Wheel; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the saine, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming part of this specication, in which- Figure 1 represents a side view of my improved water-wheel. Fig. 2 is avertical central section ofthe same. Fig. 3 is a detail horizontal section of a portion of the same.

Similar' letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

My invention consists in improving` turbine wheels, as hereinafter fully described and subsequently pointed out in the claim.

A in the drawing represents my improved water-wheel, composed of buckets a a1, of suitable shape and arrangement. B is the guidechute, arranged within the wheel; and C, the vertically-adjustable gate within the chute. The wheel and chute are both divided into two or more stories or sections, one above the other, by means of horizontal partitions b and c, respectively.

The gate can be lowered to open only one story, or two or more, according to the head of Water at disposal, and in each case the chutes and wheel will operate as one perfect apparatus, the upper parts thrown out of action not interfering the least with the lower in action.

The same invention is applicable to wheels l Witnesses W. F. REVILL, I. HALsToN. 

